If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature ... — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited. — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
For when men know they are working on what belongs to them, they work with far greater eagerness and diligence. Nay, in a word,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies. — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
